Tweet For cloud providers that want to compete with Amazon’s storage product but don’t want to set up an S3 sandbox for customers, Basho’s latest product can help. The Cambridge, Mass. startup is now offering RiakCS cloud-based storage services as an option for infrastructure-as-a-service companies and other cloud providers that want to be compatible with Amazon storage services without getting locked into the entire Amazon stack. Taking on Amazon in cloud storage is…

Tweet Since launching last year Amen has been one of the great hipster hopes of the Berlin startup scene. But now it’s about to drop a major update as it attempts to go mainstream, GigaOM has learned. I’ll confess: when Amen’s first version launched last September, it didn’t grab me. It’s a tool that lets people say that something is the best or worst something ever (“Pizza is the best…

Tweet The founder of the VoodooPC gaming computer maker, Rahul Sood, says in a new blog post that Razer could “ignite the PC industry” with products like the recent Razer Blade laptop. Read more… Neowin.net

Tweet Comparison of SIM card sizes by Giesecke & Devrient Apple has reportedly offered its design for itsy bitsy SIM cards — known officially as nano-SIM — to other mobile device makers that are part of the ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) without asking them to pay for it. There’s probably more to it than a sudden spirit of generosity. Apple loves to control the entire experience of its products,…